TAFE teacher and bricklayer Mick Matthesius introduces Year 10 students at Dapto High School to Bricklaying.
Together, they build a memorial to students who have died while at the school. They learn skills from digging the foundations to mixing the concrete and laying the bricks.
Mick also reveals how bricklaying changed his life, and encourages the students to take up an apprenticeship in bricklaying.
The female chippie To encourage women into carpentry - follow your passion, work hard and you will be a success. Meet Emma Pottie, someone who's done just that.
Australian Antarctic Division SkillsOne ventures down to the Australian Antartic Division in Hobart, talking to the tradies who travel to the coldest continent on the planet for work - Antarctica. Just what does it take to survive from the driest continent, to the coldest?
Digging graves Dave Sharpe - the Operations Manager for Rookwood Cemetery - has been digging graves with the Rookwood Anglican Trust for six years. He tells us what he does and gives advice on how to go about pursuing a job in this field, which can call on a range of skills such as landscaping, excavating and horticulture - not merely a morbid streak!
